Writer's note: So this actually was written on a little white paper sack I pulled out of my seat pocket on my one of my flights when I couldn't sleep. I believe I was listening to Holly Long's Can't Forget You, from Wicked- For Good, and watching the in flight movie, "Safe Haven" as I gathered my thoughts to write it. Strange how it all came together. I guess you can say I dedicate part of it or more so owe my inspiration to my Aussie friends and my life I had in Australia! Cheers mates!
Half My Heart in Down Under
By J. Ko
Written 28 July 2013
She gazes out the window
Looking at Botany Bay for one last time
She couldn’t believe her time
To return half way around the world
Had already come
It seemed just like yesterday
Some of her dreams were coming true
Right in front of her eyes
As she saw a glimpse of the city
And the pilot said “Lift off”
(Chorus)
Tears rolled down her face
And she prayed
“God I feel like I’ve been livin’
In a complete surreal state of being
Yet all I can think of is how I’m not
Good with good-byes
All I wanted to really say before I got on the lift
“I’ll never forget you
You’ll always be on my heart
I too really hope we meet again
You’ll always be on my heart
I too really hope we meet again
But I froze, left a note
Not able to explain the past two months
Not able to explain the past two months
Got on the lift
Realizing I was leaving
Half my heart Down Under
(Yeah half my heart)
Verse 2
When it all began
When it all began
She knew it’d be an adventure
An opportunity
A small town girl
Could put on her bucket list
Never would she had expected
To see what the other half
Of the world had to offer again
Still she could believe the bliss
So sensual and magical
And
(Chorus)
Verse 3
Time was passing by,
Emotions shaken, rattled
Her hearted pulled
She never really planned
To find herself and know who she was
Her passion, faith, desires
All in complete harmony
How could it be?
Oh tell the world how could it be?
Yeah
(Chorus)
Out her bag falls a card and a passport
She reads the card thinking
How she touched lives
More so how they touched hers
Then she finds a slip of paper
Sticking out of her paper
With an address written on it
She smiles and
Sticking out of her paper
With an address written on it
She smiles and
She closes her eyes
Oh…
(Chorus)
Her minds races
Thinking of a man she met unexpectedly
The laughs, chats, little moments
So rare, natural, real
All unheard of
Never once seeming how time realizing the time
Which passed by
How could she forget a kind and gentle face
And those dark earnest eyes
Finally in the 25 years on this earth
She wore no mask
She was her true self
How could he notice her out of a crowded room
For whatever reason
Ever moment priceless and unforgettable
In the end no barriers
God explain?
(Chorus X 2)
Plane lands
Voice on the PA Says
Welcome to the USA
She would never change a thing yeah…
